Brief
Biography
NICHOLAS RIDLEY, BISHOP OF LINCOLN BORN: 1503
EXECUTED: 1555
Latin and Greek scholar who became a speaker for the
Protestants.
Publicly denounced Mary I in a sermon.
Declared a heretic
and burned at the stake.
An account of his death exists that showed it to
be agonizing.
Nicholas Ridley became an adherent of the Protestant cause
while a student at Cambridge. He was a friend of Archbishop Cranmer and became
private chaplain first to Cranmer and then to King Henry. Under the reign of
Edward, he became bishop of Rochester, and was part of the committee that drew
up the first English Book of Common Prayer. When Mary came to the throne, he
was arrested, tried, and burned with Latimer at Oxford on 16 October 1555.
Useful
Links
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/visit/past-cranmer.html
Oxford Martyrs
http://www.pastornet.net.au/jmm/afam/afam0057.htm
More on Oxford martyrs
http://www.io.com/~kellywp/LesserFF/Oct/Latimer.html
Lessons and prayers for these.
http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/
Foxes' Book of Martyrs - text.
http://www.seanet.com/~eldrbarry/heidel/englrsc.htm
English Reformation resources
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdh0149/ocs/martyrsmem/
Oxford martyrs memorial and history.